South Moravia

Archiv měsíce 9. 2009

St. Martin’s food festival

Rubrika: Wine

1 9 2009

St. Martin, arriving on a white horse and 11 November are symbolical not just for its first snow but in present days mainly for its first glass of St. Martin’s wine. Moravian and Czech wine makers have continued with the old tradition of paying labourers and extending their work contracts. Doing so they very successfully managed to crush the offensive of French wine makers and their Beaujolais. And why on 11th? It is apparently the same crazy number as is the young wine.

St. Martin’s wine is only permitted to be made of designated types of Valtelina Early Red and Müller Thurgau grapes for white wines and St. Laurent’s and Blue Portugal grapes for rose and red wines. And those who want to be certified to sell these wines must comply with strict quality criteria, controlled by the Viticulture Committee of the Czech Republic.

Autor: Michaela Cibulková

Tagy: Lednice, Traditions, Wine tasting

First South Moravian Photo Workshop is history, let us look forward to the next one

Rubrika: Photography

1 9 2009

The first ever edition of South Moravian Photo Workshop in Lednice 2009 is history. During the months of July and August, five reputable photographers led five workshops with Czech and foreign students. We were pleased to welcome to Lednice photography enthusiasts from Romania, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Finland and the USA. The students spent three summer weeks in Lednice and its surroundings where they were coached by renowned lectures as they learnt to discover the beauty of colour and black and white photography.

Autor: Svatava Rudolfová

Tagy: Lednice, Photoworkshop

Interview with Daniel and Bernd Haug

Rubrika: Interviews

1 9 2009

Film producers from Berlin that both arrived to do different things in the south of Moravia. Daniela came to see the workshop of fashion photography of Jiří Turek and Bernd wanted to look for new locations for film and advertising. They spent ten days in Lednice and did not really want to go back to a busy Berlin.

Autor: Michaela Cibulková

Tagy: Photoworkshop

Wine themed events 2009 and 2010

Rubrika: Wine

1 9 2009

Click to this post title for opening wine themed events.

Autor: František Schultz

Tagy: Traditions, Valtice, Wine tasting

Burčák, old men’s lemonade

Rubrika: Wine

1 9 2009

Is there anything that is specific and exceptional for the region of South Moravia? Of course there is. It is Burčák (young, slightly fermented wine). Only here, except of Moravian Austrian border region in Austria, people enjoy this drink, which is an intermediate product during wine production. It is a drink which is slightly cloudy, of sweeter taste and strong flavour, resembling particular grape type with alcohol contents from one to seven percent. Burčák is most commonly made of white wine grapes but it also tastes excellent when made of red wine varieties.